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Word for Today: August 12

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I was in a meeting one time and various pastors were testifying. They were telling (bragging) of the growth and expansion of their respective churches. They were sharing how many new members they had added over the past year.

One pastor stood and testified: “We have just experienced the greatest revival in our history. When I came to my church we had about 500 members. But I began to work very hard. I preached with all my heart. God began to move. Now, after a year of hard work we are greatly blessed with seventy-five members.

Started with 500 and lost 425. But 75 are there for every meeting. 75 tithe. 75 pray and seek God. 75 are in Sunday School. 75 give to missions. 75 volunteer for all work that is necessary. 75 visit. 75 are soul winners. 75 are doing more than 500 ever did… Glory be to God.”

Jesus experienced such a sifting of His disciples. The first mass exodus came when He began to go deeper into spiritual things. He said that if they followed Him they would have to eat His body and drink His blood. They would become partakers of His divine nature. This was too much. Many fell away and never followed Him again.

He asked His own inner circle of twelve, “Will you also go away?”

Then after His Resurrection, He met 500 of His followers in Galilee and told them to go into Jerusalem and wait for the Promise of the Father… the mighty Baptism of the Holy Ghost…

And yet, when this Outpouring took place, only 120 of the 500 were present. 380 did not find it convenient to do what Jesus said do… and they missed the mightiest visitation of God in history.